Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix licensing header in filecache.c

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 01:21:45PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> I know you are Not A Lawyer (tm), but:
> 
> The e-mail address in the copyright notice is stale. Is the convention
> to leave stale e-mail addresses in place?
> 
> So I would expect copyright ownership of this code to go to Primary Data,
> Jeff's employer at the time. But they don't exist now either; it might
> be difficult to get permission from them to alter this notice.

I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I've talked to a few, so:

 - first, does Jeff own the copyright for this code, or his employer at
   the time?
 - if he owns it, can cna do pretty much whatever he wants
 - if he doesn't, I would not touch it without approval from the
   copyright holder, which gets a little complicated for a company
   that doesn't exist in that form any more.



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